Guided Tours

We travel...and we travel a lot -- on the job, weekend trips, vacations, jaunts home, and evening outings.  Have you noticed that when you journey to a new place, a place you don't know much about, that you learn very little by yourself?  Encased in your vehicle, the local lives of people and rich communities meld into "just" scenery. 

But have a friend from that area ride with you and suddenly that scenery comes alive. It becomes a rich, living, breathing colony of relationships and history and possibilities. That's the value of a guided tour.

Fallen Fruit is a collaboration between David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young.  Fallen Fruit (http://wwwfallenfruit.org) (facebook), is an international urban activist art collective that encourages us to question our surroundings and interact deeper with our community through guided tours of places in Los Angeles where fruit is available in public spaces.

Using fruit as our lens, Fallen Fruit investigates urban space, ideas of neighborhood and new forms of located citizenship and community. From protests to proposals for new urban green spaces, we aim to reconfigure the relation between those who have resources and those who do not, to examine the nature of & in the city, and to investigate new, shared forms of land use and property.

Guided tours can be for a cause, for tourism business or for visiting family -- but the essence of guided tours is green and sustainable -- share connections and make every action vital, living, connecting and a practical use of the energy expended!